Biliana Voutchkova, voice/violin

GUEST ARTIST RECITAL

Biliana Voutchkova voice and violin

Kyle Bruckmann, oboe, English horn, electronics

Wednesday, September 11, 2024 7:30 pm Recital Hall

1ST PERFORMANCE OF 2024–25 ACADEMIC YEAR

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024, 7:30 PM Real-time solo and duo compositions Biliana Voutchkova (b. 1972), violin and voice Kyle Bruckmann (b. 1971), oboe, English horn, electronics

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Biliana Voutchkova is a dynamic, thoroughly engaged interdisciplinary artist, violinist, composerperformer, improviser and curator with a highly individual, unconventional artistic language.

Through the prism of listening, her early training in classical music and the years of development as contemporary artist-performer, she explores states of spontaneity and intuitive resonance embodied in her multifaceted activities.

Based between Berlin, Germany, and her rural residency on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria, Voutchkova works internationally as a soloist, in group and collaborative projects with renowned artists and with ensembles such as the Splitter and Trickster Orchestras, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, Zeitkratzer, Ensemble Modern, and her co-founded groups Jane in Ether, Voutchkova/ Thieke duo and the Land Stages Collective.

Voutchkova is a risk taker approaching contemporary classical repertoire with the same inspiration and freedom characteristic of her forceful improvisations. She has been heard at festivals and concert series worldwide; her appearances range from celebrated concert venues such as Carnegie Hall, New York, the Berliner Philharmonie and Radial System V in Berlin, and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Japan, to the most vivid experimental venues such as Ausland and Kule/Labor Sonor in Berlin, Fylkingen in Stockholm, Sweden, and Cafe Oto in London, United Kingdom.

ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES Oboist and electronic musician Kyle Bruckmann is assistant professor of practice and program director of Varied Ensembles at University of the Pacific.

He freelances throughout the greater Bay Area’s Euro-classical music scene while actively producing experimental solo and collaborative work within an international community of improvisers and sound artists. His current ensemble affiliations include Splinter Reeds, San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Quinteto Latino, Eco Ensemble, sfSound, and the Stockton Symphony.

Bruckmann tramples genre boundaries in widely ranging work as a composer/performer, educator and New Music specialist. His creative output—extending from conservatory-trained foundations into gray areas encompassing free jazz, post-punk rock, and the noise underground—can be heard on more than 100 recordings. Three decades of chameleonic gigging have found him performing in settings including the Monterey Jazz Festival, the Venice Biennale, 924 Gilman, Berghain, a 12-foot diameter bomb shelter, and dangling 30 feet in the air by a harness from a crane.

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